This week, President Donald Trump, just like his predecessor Obama, promised to continue the utterly corrupt failure of a brutal occupation that is Afghanistan--despite running on a campaign to end it.

Reconstruction After 16 Years of War...Country's rich deposits of gold, silver, platinum, iron ore and copper could represent path to economic independence but experts call plan to tap into them 'a pipe dream'

The Persian Gulf harbors an array of extremely compromising secrets. Near the top is the Afghan heroin ratline - with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) positioned as the golden node of a transnational, trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation

Steve Bannon's Breitbart and others notwithstanding, that was Trump being Trump when he announced he would not be quitting Afghanistan, despite the manifest futility and counterproductivity -- that is, idiocy -- of America's 16-year war there.

The US is alarmed Pakistan decided Russia has the best chance of being a stabilizing force for a peaceful outcome in Afghanistan: the US doesn't want to end the war which is a cash cow, says Brian Becker from the anti-war ANSWER coalition.

There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye. Let's start with North Korea.

The US invasion of Afghanistan was based on the unproven claim that anti-communist fighter Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. We have yet to see conclusive proof. What we have seen are phony documents and faked videos put out by bi

When President Trump attributed his flip-flop on Afghanistan to his team of military generals , who informed him that a withdrawal from America's 16-year war would leave a "haven" for terrorists, I couldn't help but think of former presidenti

A lot has happened since The White House's last on-camera press briefing - from Charlottesville to CEO-denouncements and Bannon's departure, and from Afghanistan to tax reform and GOP infighting. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders has her hands full - grab your

According to reports, Gen. H. R. McMaster convinced President Trump to give up his longstanding opposition to the Afghan war by showing him this photograph, below, of Afghan women in what the media are describing as "miniskirts." As the Washingto

President Trump's "America First" base was the biggest loser of Trump's speech on Afghanistan Monday night, and many quickly expressed their disappointment at the business-as-usual address from the president who had once promised to limit Ame

President Donald Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire".

Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger joins the Liberty Report to preview President Trump's Afghanistan strategy that will be unveiled tonight. Should we expect a radical departure from the last 16 unsuccessful years? Get your ticke

For years as a reality TV star, Donald Trump demanded that the United States leave Afghanistan. Among other things, he said that the U.S. had "wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure" and "wasted lives" there, that the war was "nons

There has never been progress by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, unless you are asking the US military contractors or the Afghan drug barons, of whom an extremely large share are our allies in the Afghan government, militias and security forces, th